A need to express one’s self, a desire to entertain, a call to expose a certain truth – these are all reasons why people take to pen and paper. Whether you believe, as Joseph Epstein opined in a 2002 piece...
Saturday is International Friendship Day, and what better way to celebrate the meeting of like minds than to highlight some famous literary and artistic duos? Inspired by our Embellished Manuscripts Schiller, Letter to Goethe journal, we decided to take a...
Can you only write after your second cup of coffee? Does your whole day seem off if you don’t begin a brainstorming session in the dark? Well, you’re not alone. Writers, like athletes, are known for their habits and superstitions...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people’s journals to celebrate their imagination and inspire others. Pleas send us an email if you have a project that you would like to be featured! This month, The Journal CEO shares with...
A side effect of producing such beautiful journals is that we often hear Paperblanks® owners are nervous to “tarnish” the designs with their own notes. But our journals are meant to be loved and used just like any other notebook,...
Currently in the midst of their tenth-anniversary celebrations, Atlantis Books in Santorini, Greece is an independent bookshop founded by a group of friends from Cyprus, England and the United States. This island treasure is everything you would expect from a...
When people think of writers they tend to see romanticised visions of Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare or even J.K. Rowling. But not all professional writers are world-renowned authors and though we are constantly reading in our daily lives, we rarely...
At the beginning of this year we featured a Paperblanks® Traveller photo of Candace’s Grolier journal headed off to Santorini, Greece. Well, Paperblanks® have gone on a Greek vacation again, this time with Diana, who writes: I spent last summer in...
We’ve reached the halfway point of 2014, and what better way to acknowledge this milestone than by celebrating some of the best, most creative Paperblanks® photos we saw on Instagram this past month? Check out the shots below, then go...
The professional life of a writer can often feel ill-defined, especially when compared to friends and family working regular nine-to-five jobs. Not having a clear beginning and end to the day can make setting goals difficult, and if you’re not...